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At least 20 minutes run time. Had to plug it back in at that point because I wouldn't be there to observe it. Pretty sweet. And the floppy module from my 190 works perfectly in it too. Shame though that this is not a great keyboard. It works, but the keys are stiffer than I like or they look...

I was rather fortunate with it, though the seller had said it was not tested, so I didn't think he'd accept the offer. When he did, I was pretty sure that meant he actually had tested it and found it wouldn't work. When I first plugged it in, it chimed but did nothing else, so maybe that's what...

All the keys seem to be working, and the battery even reported it was charging and is now charged... I'm not sure I believe that though. It's a 180, so I think, the base model with 16Mb RAM and 1.3Gb HD. Physically it's a bit scuffed up and 'well used' but no cracks and the hinges are good, so...

I couldn't get the IDE/SD formatted in the Lombards - it wasn't recognized. Perhaps I need an alternative disk utility or something, but a different SD solution was good though. However, you were right about the fact the 3400 was 'booting', because I grabbed a Mac OS 8.0 install CD from the...

The 340o doesn't boot - but there is definitely a problem with the HD. It spins up, then down a few times, then there's click and it powers down. Sounds like the heads are stuck, the drive doesn't initialize, and after a few attempts it self parks again. Meanwhile, of course, the question mark...

Neither the 160 or 3400 work. Delivered today, and both actually power up. The 160 screen remains blank (but grey), the 3400 screen comes up with a mouse pointer and the question mark disk icon, along with a sound that I think is the HD trying to spin ump, then stopping. I have no CD media...

Thanks you! That makes life a bit more simple, and means I can go ahead and install without waiting for the power lead.

OK, stupid question time: My Classic and Classic II are both now working. The Classic II has it's original HD and boots/runs perfectly. The Classic HD failed, and I have a BlueSCSI device in there. It doesn't boot, but sometimes does, or sometimes nearly does - anyway, the behavior is...

Ah, that was it, yes. I must say, those were the days when Apple was highly skilled in designing for the planned obsolescence of their products. There is a 3400 on eBay right now where the owner/seller says it worked 3 years ago but won't now... that could be a self-destruct contender to avoid...

I recall something about battery damage to the logic board is this model, so not expecting much. If nothing else it might be good for some parts when I get a working one, and it was cheap enough to take a chance on it anyway. It's important to take my mind off the pending SCSI2SD upgrade to my...

Oh dear - the addiction continues... Two new acquisitions, though both parts/repair. A PowerBook 160, which I was interested in purely for the bottom casing, spare floppy drive and screen, and a 3400c - which looks to be the ugliest PowerBook ever, but I haven't seen one before in person to know...

I have swapped the USB side on my Wombat a few times, before I recalled that ADB doesn't respond well to this. I didn't have a problem with anything other than that my mouse tracking reset to slow in 8.1 on my 630CD. When I used the Wombat in the other direction on a modern iMac, and...

Passive matrix screens get a bad rap these days because they seem to degrade faster/further in image clarity/resolution/granularity/contrast/brightness than active matrix does, but when new they were not really that bad. These days, some are awful, but I suspect that's at least as much about...

In hate to say it, because I've been quite happy with passive matrix screens in many of the old PowerBooks so far, but it does indeed! But at least I now have a concrete reason to dislike my original 1400cs!

My original 1400cs/117 on the left, the new 1400c/166 on the right. I hadn't really expected the difference in screens to be so noticeable... silly me! Admittedly, the 117 looks more washed out due to the angle, but in real life it is quite a night-and-day difference in display. Of the two...

Ah. I've never done any 3D printing, or had access to the equipment so it's not something I think of. It might actually help if I dismantled some of these systems to see how such things as the hinges actually work! It does seem unfortunate that these hinges are pretty much certain to break at...

It's almost certain there aren't enough 190s left to make it worth anyone making new hinge components for it... and it wasn't exactly a popular model even then let alone now.

My guess is that being metal, it's harder to do, but it's also possible that it isn't profitable for those who could do it, since there aren't enough PDQs out there to need it. Shame though, because it's such a great laptop.

I didn't realize the PDQ hinges were so fragile - that the metal is so soft it snaps open. On the other hand, they were probably already far enough gone that even if I'd been careful, they wouldn't have lasted long. I do still have a good one, with hinges that feel reasonably firm, and a...

The 1400 was $100, which I think was pretty decent for a working machine, with 64Mb RAM, and a fully functional CD drive - even with the usual cracking problem. Once I've settled on where it will be used, I'll keep it open until I can work out how to fix the hinges. Breaking the PDQ's hinges is...